Mueller to Wrap Up Trump Obstruction Investigation by Sept.

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Special counsel Robert S. Mueller plans to finish his investigation into whether President Donald J. Trump obstructed the Russia collusion witch hunt by Sept. 1.

According to the New York Times, which has proven to be a biased and unreliable source of news about the Trump haters Russian collusion allegations,

Rudy Giuliani, said on Sunday that waiting any longer would risk improperly influencing voters in the midterm elections in November.

Giuliani pointed to the revelation by former F.B.I. director James Comey in the last days of the 2016 presidential race that he was reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Comey’s announcement is widely blamed by the sore loser-Democrats for costing her the election:

“You don’t want another repeat of the 2016 election where you get contrary reports at the end and you don’t know how it affected the election,” Mr. Giuliani said.

The Times is quick to remind us that handing in a report to the Justice Department on his findings in the obstruction case would not signal the end of  Mueller’s continuing witch hunt:

The obstruction examination is one piece of Mr. Mueller’s broader inquiry, a counterintelligence investigation into Russia’s campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

The times goes on to “report” that “legal experts” said Mr. Trump’s promise of intervention had little precedent, and could force a clash between the sitting president and his Justice Department that is reminiscent of the one surrounding Richard M. Nixon during Watergate:

“I can’t think of a prior example of a sitting president ordering the Justice Department to conduct an investigation like this one,” said Stephen I. Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law. “That’s little more than a transparent effort to undermine an ongoing investigation.”

What is more unprecedented is that the F.B.I. embedded an informant to spy on the Trump presidential campaign. That is a much bigger deal that Watergate.

I agree with the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel that the Department of Justice being run by one political party, electronically surveilling and then also spying on the leading candidate, for a nominee for opposing party running for the presidency is “mind boggling”:

I’m old enough to remember Watergate. What the Obama F.B.I. did in spying on the Trump Presidential campaign is much worse than what the Nixon Committee to Reelect the President did in the Watergate scandal.

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